Download Now, on the small index card, write your name and a

Index Card Exercise (Class Participation credit)
UHD 2302
1. Last name, First Name:
Redl, Timothy (Redl rhymes with “cradle”)
2. E-mail address, phone number:
[email protected], (713) 398-3573
3. Major (minor); Expected date of graduation
Mathematics (Operations research); June 1997 (Dartmouth College)
4. What classes are you taking this semester?
Teaching STAT 4303 and UHD 2302 in Spring 2016
5. Do you work a part-time or full-time job? How many hours a week?
Yes (a lot) 
6. What other college-level MATH or STAT courses (if any) have you taken?
Too many to list here!
7. Why are you taking this course?
I love math. I love games. I love sports. I love to gamble. 
Index Card Exercise (Class Participation credit)
UHD 2302
8. What is something or someone about which you are passionate?
My family; Billy Joel’s music; Rice Owls and Houston Astros baseball
9. What is your greatest strength as a student?
Desire to learn
What is your greatest weakness as a student?
Procrastinator
10. Word association! Write down the first word that comes to mind…
“Mathematics”
My answer: “everywhere”
11. What do you expect from me as your professor?
12. Rate your level of knowledge of probability:
1 – high
2 – medium
3 – low
13. Rate your level of interest in sports:
1 – high
2 – medium
3 – low
14. What is one question that you want to ask me?
Now, on the small index card, write your name and a “FUN FACT” about you!
Here’s mine: My wife Amy and I had our first child this past December! 
Turn in your “FUN FACT” card now, but hold on to your other index card!
Index Card Exercise (Class Participation credit)
UHD 2302
When I read your “Fun Fact”, stand up and introduce yourself to us!
1.
Name
3.
Major (minor); Expected date of graduation
7.
Why are you taking this course?
8.
What is something or someone about which you are passionate?
10. Mathematics  _____________
… and anything else you’d like to share!
Visit me in my office (S705F) sometime this week
and bring this card with you for Class Participation credit
Welcome to the course! 
Learning by doing
“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”
-- Aristotle
“One must learn by doing the thing; for though
you think you know it, you have no certainty,
until you try.”
-- Sophocles
“Just do it.”
-- Nike
UHD 2302: University Seminar in Mathematics
Course description: This course
introduces students to applications of
mathematics in games, sports, and
gambling. Students will engage in critical
thinking in learning mathematical
concepts in basic probability and
statistics, and apply these concepts to
such applications. Topics include an
analysis of popular casino games such as
poker, roulette, craps, and blackjack;
discovering secrets behind other dice
and card games and tricks; deciphering
baseball and football statistics; and
solving combinatorial games and puzzles.
Problem solving and written and oral
communication skills are emphasized
within the context of these topics, as well
as skills and strategies essential for
success in mathematics and other
academic disciplines.